Listening to Blank Range is like scratching a particularly annoying itch: sooooooooooooo refreshing and, more importantly, sooooooooooo satisfying. The band’s got a clear hodgepodge of influences: a little bit of Gaslight Anthem, a little bit of Steve Earle, a little…
I’ve been shouting praise for Karen and the Sorrows from the rooftops for a good five years now. I’ve heard the band tweak this collection of songs over the last three years or so. And now that The Narrow Place…
I don’t think this album could have come at a better time. If you stuck the Replacements, David Bowie, and John Prine in a blender, slowed them all down with some codeine, and let them stumble woozily around, you’d get…
Anna Volpe’s “Never Imagine” is a touching tribute to her father, but it’s also a whole lot more than that. You may recognize Volpe’s dulcet tones from the background in Paisley Fields songs. Volpe’s heading out on her own and…
I had been planning to write about Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires this week regardless of current events, but with the tragedy in Charlottesville Youth Detention is even more urgent than before. If you’re not familiar with the…